If you’re concerned your weight has gotten a little away from you and your missing the energy and jeans size of days gone past then these tips may help! Little life style choices can go a long way in helping you manage your portions and food choices. The following five tips are small changes and insights you can make in your day to day to see sustainable results.
Be kind to yourself and make these choices from a place of self-love and compassion. Eating is a way to fuel your body to its highest potential and should never be a means of punishment or shaming. Allow yourself grace and understanding. Move forward free of judgement and excited about a life where you have the energy and health to make the most of it!
Load your plate with vegetables!
When you are building your bowl/plate: add in lots of extra non-starchy vegetables. Think, broccoli, pumpkin, carrots, mushrooms, tomatoes and all delicious, seasonal things that are low in calories but deliver on volume.
Filling up on these will send mechanical satiety signals through your stomach receptors to your brain to get you feeling fuller, sooner.
If you are after a treat, bake your own!
Super fun to do with little ones, friends or on a cruisey Saturday when you are feeling creative. When you bake your own you can opt to add less sugar and fats, more fruit and protein (such as a tasty vanilla protein powder). You can also control the size of this treat, a homemade bliss balls, cookies or muffins can be between 50-100 calories whereas that cookie, slice or cake from the cafe could top 400 calories or more. Not ideal but we still want to enjoy snacks so get around these banana bread muffins or find your way to chocolate bliss balls in the buttons below.
Opt for smart swops
My personal favourite option is the rice cracker to swop out for bread or wraps. They are gluten free so generally friendly on the gut, they offer a crunch factor and they weigh in at around 20 calories compared to the average 180 calorie piece of bread. Game Changer.
Use a smaller plate or bowl
Using smaller serving dishes is a pretty hard and fast way to make sure you’re not overloading your digestive system. Dinner plates and bowls have steadily gotten bigger in strong correlation to our waist circumference… give your brain as many subtle cues for portion control as you can.
A final tip: Work with your metabolism, not against it. Gut health, hormonal balance and exercise are important keys to firing up the furnace that is your metabolism. In other words, ensure your gut is healthy, your hormones, your sleep and stress are on track so you can effectively burn the calories you consume. The right things will lead you to the results you desire.
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